Clothes-pounder.



PATENTED MAR. 15, 1904.

V. T. & E. W. LYNGH.

CLOTHES POUNDER.

APPLIGATION FILED 1130.19.

N0 MODEL.

IiOfO/"ZL h ynch/ E2116 nah wm NTTED STATES Patented March 15, 1904.

PATENT Crrrcn.

VICTOR T. LYNCH AND EMBRY W. LYNCH, OF COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.

CLOTH ES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,879, dated March15, 1904.

Application filed December 19, 1903. Serial No. 185,878. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, VIoToR T. LYNCH and EMBRY W. LYNCH, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Muscogee and Stateof Georgia, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Founder, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of devices for washing clotheswherein a hollow conical member is employed having various meansattached to or associated therewith for causing the water to be drawninto and forcibly expelled from the same, and thus driven through theclothes to be cleansed.

In operating washing implements of the general character of the deviceherein described as generally constructed the resistance to the upwardmovement is so great as to be a source of annoyance and materiallyincreases the labor without a corresponding benefit. v

The principal object of the present invention is to produce an implementwhereby the excessive resistance to the upward movement is reducedwithout detracting from the efficiency or thoroughness of the action;and with this and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature ofthe invention is more fully disclosed, the same consists .in certainnovel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described, andspecified in the claims.

Figure 1 is a sectional view on the line 1 1 of Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is asectional View on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan View.I

The improved implement consists of a conical shell or casing 10, forminga chamber 10, open at the bottom and with an operating-handle 11extending from the apex of the cone, as shown. Thehandle is supported byasocket 12 within the chamber 10, formed by the shell 10, and extendingradially between the socket and the walls of the chamber are transversepartitions 13, dividing the interior of the chamber into aplurality ofcompartments. The partitions and socket terminate above the lower edgeof the shell 10, thus leaving the lower portion unobstructed, as shown.

Attached to the outer surface of the casing 10 are semiconical members1A, forming a plushown.

rality of spaced exteri or air-chambers 15, equal in number to thecompartments formed by the partitions 13 and open at their bottoms andwith their lower ends in horizontal alinement with the lower edge of theshell 10, as

Supported within the chamber 10, beneath the partitions 13, and alsospaced from the inner walls of the chamber is an annular tubular member16, having apertures 17 and provided at two or more points with branches18, leading through the walls of the chamber 10 and spaced above itslower edge, as shown. The annular member is also provided with branches19, connecting it with each of the air-chambers 15, as shown. Any numberof the air-chambers l5 and partitions 13 may be employed; but generallyfour of each will be sufficient, as shown.

In operating the device at the downward stroke air cannot escape fromthe interior of the chamber after the device enters the water far enoughto submerge the tubular branches 18, as will be obvious. Hence the waterbeneath the device will be forcibly driven through the clothes to becleansed. At the beginning of the upstroke a suction is created whichforcibly draws the air upward through the clothes, and this suctioncontinues until the outer ends of the pipes 18 rise above the water,when the entering air will instantly equalize the pressure and destroythe suction by entering the whole interior of the casing 10, includingthe compartments formed by the partitions 13, which are thus suppliedthrough the apertures 17, as will be obvious. The continued upwardpressure, therefore, meets little more resistance than that caused bythe weight of the implement. The implement is thus rendered very easy ofaction, while at the same time retaining a suflicient amount of thesuction force to accomplish the desired results and thoroughly andforcibly drive the washing-water to and fro through the clothes andobviating all unnecessary resistance. The interior of the implementbeing divided into a plurality of independent air -chambers by themembers 13 and 14:, the force is uniformly distributed and acts withcorresponding uniformity when the implement is operated.

The implement may be constructed of any suitable material and of anyrequired size and may be of various sizes to adapt it to the workrequired.

The parts except the handle 11 will generally be of galvanized iron orsteel of suflicient gage to withstand the strains to which it will besubjected.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed is- 1. An implementof the character described comprising a conical chamber open at the bottom and with ahandle extending from the apex thereof, said chamberhaving exterior longitudinal air-chambers open at their lower ends, anannular tubular member supported within said conical chamber and spacedfrom the bot tom thereof and likewise from the side walls of the sameand provided with apertures communicating with the interior of thechamber, air-tubes connecting said tubular member with saidair-chambers, and air-tubes connected to said tubular member through thewalls of said conical chamber and spaced from its bottom.

2. An implement of the character described with said air-chambers, andair-tubes connected to said tubular member through said conical chamberand spaced from its lower edge. In testimony that we claim the foregoingas our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of twowitnesses.

VICTOR T. LYNCH. EMBRY W. LYNCH.

Witnesses:

CHAS. M. \VooLFoLn, W. CECIL NEILL.

